Already home to a major gaming industry, Nevada is preparing to take its expertise online after officials rapidly approved a law to become the first state in the nation to authorize what could become one of the most lucrative gambling markets still to be tapped.

At the bill signing held in the same Capitol room where lawmakers legalized gambling some 80 years ago, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval formally put his signature to the law Thursday. By quickly moving the bill through the Legislature, Nevada gets ahead of rival New Jersey in the race to win the first slot in the online poker business, where billions of dollars are being wagered domestically and tens of billions of dollars are bet from around the world.

If you can trade stocks on line then you should damn well be able to gamble online,,,I know one guy that set up a casino in the Netherland Antillies. He was more honest than those scumbags on Wall street.

Not if you can regulate it, so kids don't get into it, or bad guys don't try to get one's credit card no., and drain their accounts, and the IRS gets its share of taxes collected on the winnings. The last time I was in 'Vegas, a man got a heck of a jackpot on a cash-payout slot machine. Within seconds after the last coin dropped into the pan, a staff member gave him a plastic device to stack his coins,and a form to sign to let the IRS know what he won and give them an idea what to charge for taxes. Lord knows we can use the $, to the tune of 16 trillion.

Wow more people for yes. I guess i can understand that with all the addicted or obsessed. But people do have a right to gamble online just like they do anywhere. Its just a matter of self-control. If online gambling should be illegal then so should it be anywhere. But again i dont see that happening, especially with all the money it makes.

The majority of people who gamble do not come out ahead. If so, there would not be casinos or gambling, I have seen grown men crying after losing their savings and large amount of cash. It is an addiction which will lead you down the road to destruction

It's a personal responsibility. This industry can attack those who have no self control or idea what they are doing. That is when you take away their credit cards or put a cap on it. It can really destroy certain groups. That is why if you are a family member, you should make it an issue to ensure they are financially stable.

First of all. Interesting phrasing of the question. It was almost loaded.
Should online gambling be illegal because Nevada has legalised it?
Um!
Any country claiming to be a democracy should not be curtailing its citizens freedoms unless those freedoms interfere with the freedoms of others.

I don't think so but most other people do. It just seems like way too many people get some form of pleasure out of flushing their hard earned money down the toilet. I don't understand it but it is the truth.

Oh yeah they should have a chop chop square and chop off all fingers when gaming online poker. I am NOT speaking of the gamblers but have heard people can hack and "play" the system much easier with online gambling. Thos are the folks that deserve their hands hacked.
PS I am being facetious in a sense but still though not a gambler I despise cheaters bigtime